By Jane Eisner
So Jeffrey Goldberg thinks that publishing lists of Jews is a bad idea. The fiercely smart, often snarky and well-travelled columnist is with Bloomberg Views now, and
wrote a provocative piece calling on the Jerusalem Post and the Forward to, in his words, stop with the ranking, already.
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By Jane Eisner
A raging fire recently destroyed a row of Bronx businesses. Jane Eisner can relate. Three decades ago, her father’s optometry shop went up in flames a stone’s throw away.
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By Jane Eisner
Mother’s Day, 1983. I’m sitting in our cramped apartment kitchen in Philadelphia with my husband and two older friends who were, I guess, substituting for our own parents that day. The crazy traffic along the Northeast corridor on that Sunday in May often meant that we skipped visiting my mother in New York and my mother-in-law in Virginia. We were never big on Hallmark holidays, anyhow.
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By Jane Eisner
Sid Schwarz’s new book has a rather ambitious title, but then, this rabbi/entrepreneur is a rather ambitious man. In
“Jewish Megatrends”, he aspires to do nothing less than, as the subtitle says, chart the course of the American Jewish future. He’s not doing it alone, of course. That’s where I came in.
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